--- title: ‘There is no fortune to be made here,’ he thought to himself; ‘it is… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘There is no fortune to be made here,’ he thought to himself; ‘it is a place for spending, and not earning. Who acts: fortune, stick. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/99/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/) / 99 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 99 ‘There is no fortune to be made here,’ he thought to himself; ‘it is a place for spending, and not earning. **Who acts:** fortune, stick · **What happens:** be, make, think, not earn · **To what, where:** fortune, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, stick), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:33:99 # text = ‘There is no fortune to be made here,’ he thought to himself; ‘it is a place for spending, and not earning. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 7 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 9 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’ ' CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 ccomp _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 spending spending NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 earning earn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | no fortune | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | no fortune *not said here* | | | here | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | fortune | | fortune | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | stick | a place | | | | for spending | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **earn** | gerund | fortune *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/100/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/)